"If you get a square, that indicates that the font of the app is not in fact set to your signature font for that character. Tom Gewecke at Apple forums is the person who gave the tips and he wrote me: If I write "sig", I get a rectangle.ģ) In Powerpoint drag & drop or double click get me an "A", and "sig" gets me "sig" in Calibri. If I write "sig", I get "sig" in Times New Roman.Ģ) In Excel is the opposite: if I drag & drop or double click I get an "A" in Calibri Font. The behavior changes according to the app:ġ) In Word, if I drag & drop or double click (with My Signature Font on) all I get is a rectangle. But it DOES NOT WORK in Word, Excel & Powerpoint, even if I do it exactly the same way. This works fine in Mail, Pages, Numbers & Outlook 2011. This is exactly what I was looking for: a keyboard shortcut to insert my signature anywhere. Asking same question to the smart people in this forum.īasically, they suggested me to add the Unicode F041 to Favorites in Character Viewer and from there I can:ġ) Drag & Drop F041 and get my signature in my document.Ģ) Double click F041 and get my signature in my document and.ģ) The easiest way: type "sig" (or whatever shortcut I choose) in my document and get the signature right there. Pages and Numbers but NOT on Word, Excel or Powerpoint. But I cannot type it because the originally preselected keystroke (CapitalĪ) does not work in OS X, if I type Capital A it just types a Capital A ("A") in Times New Roman.Īfter some very good tips from very smart people in Apple Forum and MacForum, now I am able to use my Signature iFont in Outlook 2011, Mail, I can actually see my signature in the preview window of FontBook and FontExplorer.
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The information of this font by FontExplorer X Pro in OS X is: Not work in any app as it did in Word 2013 for Windows in the same Macbook Pro. I installed it, activated it and validated it in FontBook but it did
I want to use it in Office for Mac and Mac native apps (Mail, Pages, Numbers, etc.).
The font works fine in WindowsĨ.1 running in Parallels 9 in my MacBook Pro OS X 10.9.2 The preselected keyboard stroke is Capital A
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I want to install and use a special font with my signature made in TrueType (PC) in 1996 by a company no longer in business.